Just FYI: These articles haven’t gone through any sort of editorial control at this point so there’s bound to be spelling mistakes, code mistakes, etc. I’m frequently making revisions and posting the current copies up on the Manning site. http://manning.com/resig/

(in regards to the samurai) While I do feel that it is a very nice cover I completely agree that it is not a ninja (or, at least, not the traditional hollywood ninja). I provided an alternative ninja for the cover, found on the book’s web site: http://jsninja.com/ but Manning opted not to use it. Maybe some fuss might sway their minds.

Just had a quick look at the closures… looks good, no major hickups… however I’m missing one bit that should probably go into the closures chapter: Creating wrapper functions which call a given method in the correct scope… it’s really essential to working with event listeners and solves many problems, especially for former Java developers.

Anyway, there is something “wrong” with the links, the href attributes only point to “www.…” instead of “http://www.…” which, in my browser (Safari 3.1.2 on the Mac) just puts the “www.…” as the last part of the path (so it tries to send me to “http://ajaxian.com/archives/www.manning.com/resig” for example).

@all: I’m about halfway done with the book at this point – we’ll have to see how long the next half takes (the next chapters, theoretically, should be easier to write). The final book probably won’t be out until this winter – hopefully in time for Christmas.

John just had a peek at the prototype chapter. It looks great. I’ve been waiting for your new book since you posted that your doing a new book on your site. Cant wait to get your book on my bookshelf too.

For me a Ninja has always been a turtle. Since I’m told I’m wrong, I went to Wikipedia, and what did I find in the dress section:

“There is no evidence historical ninja wore all-black suits. In modern times, camouflage based upon dark colors such as dark red and dark blue is known to give better concealment at night. Some cloaks may have been reversible: dark colored on the outside for concealment during the night, and white colored on the inside for concealment in the snow. Some ninja may have worn the same armor or clothing as samurai or Japanese peasants.”

This encourages me to stick with the Samurai guy riding a wave–after all, he ‘s got to be pretty crafty if he’s able to do that.